Open Source Comes to Campus, at UMass-Amherst

The Background

Students like you around the world are gaining
valuable experience, connections, and skills by
coding, testing, and writing for free software
projects like Firefox, WordPress, Wikipedia's backend
code, and SAGE.

You do not need to know how to program to
contribute to free software. You can contribute code,
but also original art, testing, documentation, web
design, and much more. All levels of skill and experience
are welcome.

The events

This is a day-long immersion event, on Sunday, March 9th, from 10:00am to 5:00pm, at UMass, in the Gunness Student Center's main space.

In the morning, we'll teach you about open source
licensing, collaboration tools, and how free software
projects are organized.

In the afternoon, we'll help you make contributions
to open source projects.

And throughout the day we'll feed you, get to know
you, and talk with you about opportunities for
students in open source.

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More about open source

Free, open source software is software that is
shared freely and available to build upon. It is a
great way to apply your skills to real-world projects
and social causes. You can participate by writing or
reviewing code, answering users' questions,
translating the interface to another language, making
video tutorials to help new users, and myriad other
ways. Open source software is often produced by lots
of people collaborating across time and space, and
this event specially welcomes newcomers to that style
of development.

Open source participation is one way to gain
real-world skills and make connections that will last
you through your career. Volunteer staff will include
professionals and academics who use open source
daily.

Who we are

The event is put together with the help of OpenHatch, a non-profit that helps people get involved in open source.

Get in touch

If you want to get in touch with us, the best thing
to do is to email us. Try this:
hello@openhatch.org

Want to chat ahead of the event? Ask questions on
#openhatch on FreeNode. Consider using IRC your first
open source accomplishment. :)
Click here
for web chat.

Code of conduct

Open Source Comes to Campus is dedicated to providing a harassment-free conference experience for everyone, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, or religion. We do not tolerate harassment of participants in any form. Our full anti-harassment policy can be found here.